Ilene Strauss is the Clinical Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Legal Writing and Lawyering Programs at Fordham Law School and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Previously, she was the director of legal writing and moot court programs at Columbia Law School, where she was responsible for developing and implementing the curricula for the first-year and LL.M. legal writing programs and overseeing Columbia’s extensive moot court program.
Prior to joining the Law School, Ms. Strauss practiced commercial litigation at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler and Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. She also clerked for the Honorable Emilio M. Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Ms. Strauss received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as an editor of the Michigan Law Review, and her B.A. from Brown University.